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Confessional poetry in the Cold Warthe poetics of doublespeak /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Confessional poetry in the Cold Warby Adam Beardsworth.
Reminder of title:	the poetics of doublespeak /
Author:	Beardsworth, Adam.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	ix, 186 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	American poetryHistory and criticism.20th century
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5
ISBN:	9783030931155$q(electronic bk.)

Confessional poetry in the Cold Warthe poetics of doublespeak /
Beardsworth, Adam.

Confessional poetry in the Cold Warthe poetics of doublespeak /[electronic resource] :by Adam Beardsworth. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - ix, 186 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - American literature readings in the 21st century,2634-5803. - American literature readings in the 21st century..

1. Introduction: The Poetics of Doublespeak -- 2. "Lack-Land Atoms Split Apart": Robert Lowell's Atomic Confessions -- 3. The Poetics of Double-Talk: John Berryman's Dream Songs as Cold War Testimonials -- 4. Fastening a New Skin: Anne Sexton, Self-Help, and the Illness of Responsibility -- 5. Toward a Poetics of Terror: Sylvia Plath and the Instant of Death -- 6. New Critical Conspiracy Theory: Randall Jarrell and the Poetics of Dissent.

This book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb's shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names. Adam Beardsworth is a professor of English at Memorial University's Grenfell Campus, Canada, where he teaches contemporary literature and critical theory. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on US and Canadian poetry and is a past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies. He lives in Steady Brook, Newfoundland.

ISBN: 9783030931155$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

176085
American poetry
--History and criticism.--20th century

LC Class. No.: PS323.5 / .B43 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 811.5409

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